2016-2017学年高二英语上册课时模块测评试题38.docVIP

第一单元综合微评 满分：120分　时间：90分钟 第一部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节　(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 A Jeffrey P．Bezos，the founder，president and chairman of the board of A，was born in Albuquerque，New Mexico.His mothers ancestors were early settlers in Texas，and over the generations had acquired a 25,000 acre farm at Cotulla.Jeffrey spent most summers of his youth working with his grandfather on their farm. Jeffrey showed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age.He set up an electric alarm to keep his younger sisters and brothers out of his room and changed his parents garage into a laboratory for his science projects. After he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering，Jeff Bezos found employment on Wall Street，where computer science was increasingly in demand to study market trends.He rose quickly，becoming a senior Vice President，and looked forward to a bright career in finance，when he made a discovery that changed his life，and the course of business history. In 1994，there was still no Internet commerce to speak of.One day that spring，Jeffrey Bezos observed that Internet usage was increasing by 2,300 percent a year.He saw an opportunity for a new circle of commerce，and immediately began considering the possibilities. Bezos founded A in l994，setting up the original company in his garage.The company was called Amazon for the seemingly endless South American river with its numberless branches.It started as an online bookstore but soon diversified to all kinds of products.His work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most excellent dot-com entrepreneurs(企业家)．He was named Time magazines Person of the Year in 1999.In 2008，he was selected by U．S.News World Report as one of Americas Best Leaders.BezosAmazon has become the “Earths biggest anything store”．A is now called “one of the smartest strategies in business history”． Today，Jeff Bezos lives north of Seattle and is increasingly co